Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Un Chien Andalou, by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, is really strange. I forgot I had seen it already, which is weird, since it was a very memorable film. However as soon as I saw the knife slicing the eye in the very first scene, I remembered the entire film or some key scenes from it. I found it interesting how I did not remember the title, but I remembered some of the most provocative shots [ants coming from a hole in the hand, knife slicing the eye, etc.]. The title is not important, but the content of a film should be the most significant part of a film. And Un Chien Andalou does this.

The film is very hard to follow, but it is compelling all the same. I find it intriguing that a film as radical as this is so gripping. I read in our book that the eye slicing scene is literally making a cut at normative vision of film. The film details from the first scene that this film will not be a "normal" film with that cringing shot. It is going to make viewers think and try to understand what is happening. In this film, it is almost impossible to fully deduce the meaning or themes of the film because there is such a disconnect in every scene from the others.